# Who'da thunk it? I didn't know they were STRAIGHT! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2000, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420 "2000-11-23T05:58:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/41 "2000-11-29T18:34:25Z")
YOu interviewed KEVIN MURPHY? What’s he really like? I never thought of him as gay-he’s more the big burly hirsute Irish guy with the barbershop voice. (The man sure can sing!) If anyone was gay, I would think it would be TV’s Frank, or Paul Chaplin. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/42 "2000-11-29T18:35:38Z")
Sorry, I missread it-you also talking to Mike Trace and Jim? WHOA!!! ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/43 "2000-11-29T19:21:38Z")
Yes, **Guinastasia** , I couldn’t resist the opportunity to drop a few names. From 1993-1995 I was in grad school at the University of Georgia and co-hosted a public-affairs talk show at the campus radio station. Usually my cohost Jill and I just talked about political topics and brought in professors, leaders of student groups like NORML or College Republicans, etc. (One week when we were really desperate we brought in the university’s head librarian to talk about LoC numbers and magnetic theft-detection tags.) Anyway, The University of Georgia awards and administers the Peabody Awards. MST3K had won the year before, and was invited down to Athens to teach master classes and preview an episode in the student center’s theater. Since I was a student judge for the Peabodys that year, I was able to pull some strings and get them onto my show for an hour. We were usually a live early-evening show, but their schedule wouldn’t permit that, so we taped at midday and played it at the regular time. They were, as you might expect, a major hoot. There wasn’t a moment during that entire hour when we felt like we were in control of the interview. Kevin was by far the funniest and most spontaneous. Mike was so soft-spoken as to be infuriating; when we played the tape later I could barely make out his answers, even though there was a mike (n.p.i.) right in front of his mouth. I could probably dub a tape and send it to you, iffen you’re interested. ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/44 "2000-12-02T22:27:21Z")
Martin Gore and Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/45 "2000-12-02T23:06:59Z")
Ooooh…could you could you could you??? I have the BIGGEST Crush on Mike Nelson! (And Joel, too) ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/46 "2000-12-03T03:13:40Z")
**Guinastasia** : > [@](#): > > Ooooh…could you could you could you??? > I have the BIGGEST Crush on Mike Nelson! (And Joel, too) Sure thing. I won’t promise a speedy response, but as soon as I’ve made a dub I’ll email you and you can give me your mailing address. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/47 "2000-12-03T07:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lamia \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > > \*\* > > > > As for Bowie, I thought the deal was he’s straight, but he played it gay and camp in the 70’s for the shock value. \*\* > > I think that’s pretty much it. He said he was bisexual back in the 70’s, but he now says that he never had a single sexual experience with another man. I don’t think that could possibly be due to lack of opportunity! I have also seen him quoted as saying that claiming he was bisexual in the first place was a big mistake. I suppose it’s possible that he’s simply retreated back into the closet in recent years, but it seems to me that his bisexuality was probably just a fashion statement. > \*\* Angela Bowie(David’s wife) caught Mick Jagger and her husband doing the wild thing. It is in her biography, the title of which escapes me. I also read an interview with the former Mrs. Bowie in Susie Bright’s **Sexwise** which confirmed the same data. ---
**Author:** ![Earthman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@Earthman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/48 "2000-12-03T16:25:25Z")
I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned Tony Randall yet - I was floored when I learned that he actually had a kid a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/49 "2000-12-04T01:32:21Z")
WEll…Tony Randall did play a gay guy on this show, Love, Sidney. I remember that show very vaguely. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/50 "2000-12-04T02:33:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\* > > Angela Bowie(David’s wife) caught Mick Jagger and her husband doing the wild thing. It is in her biography, the title of which escapes me. I also read an interview with the former Mrs. Bowie in Susie Bright’s **Sexwise** which confirmed the same data. \*\* That may be so, but David Bowie says that he has never had sex with another man. If it is a case of his word against his ex-wife’s then I’m more inclined to believe him. I can’t think of any reason for him to lie about it, but Angela Bowie might have reason to – or she might have honestly been mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/51 "2000-12-04T16:34:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tevya \* > \*\*Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode > > \*\* Well, since he picked me up once, at a club in NY, I assume he’s straight. Althought since all we did all night was hold hands I can’t confirm anything. ---
**Author:** ![Palandine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@Palandine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palandine)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/52 "2000-12-04T16:46:05Z")
Paul Shaffer (sp?) from the David Letterman Show. I was shocked SHOCKED I tell you, to find out he had a wife and child. Also, slightly more obscure, Andrew Robinson (Garak from Deep Space Nine, husband from “Hellraiser,” star of the tv movie “Liberace”). I’ve had a total crush on him for years (nothing like a 30-year-old with a letch for a 59-year-old man). Married with an adult daughter. He’s not gay, he just plays sensitive guys. I can appreciate that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420/53 "2000-12-04T20:19:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\*Who’da ever guessed Matthew Broderick was straight? And John Lithgow? And several Chicago TV personalities of whom the rest of you have never heard! > > Who has surprised you with their conventional lifestyles? \*\* John Lithgow? What is this? Is any male actor who doesn’t look /act like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, etc., now assumed to be gay? Or are these assumptions based on actual facts or rumors that one has heard? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoda-thunk-it-i-didnt-know-they-were-straight/42420.md?page=2)